Trainee Consultant Review

- Individual catch ups and team meetings to discuss progression of projects and work that I am currently doing or supporting - Provide meeting summaries and next steps
- Building slide decks for 1) client bids, 2) visualising the integration of behavioural science into people change unit, 3) development of internal tools and processes.
- Proof read decks
- Independent research to support development of client diagnostic tool
- Present on all hands calls on lessons learned and actionable work development

Yes given a significant amount of responsibility. Not given projects, required to network and build my own opportunities to projects which positively challenges me to drive my own development and work on projects that I enjoyed.
Led the development of a client proposal and then asked to pitched the proposal to clients in person and ran a workshop taster session.

- confidence and communication in the workplace: working with individuals of all levels as well as presenting to clients
- bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical client work - applying knowledge to analyse data and synthesise high level concepts into actionable insights
- ownership of personal development
- collaboration on various projects

Minimal guidance - on the one hand this significantly developed my confidence and networking abilities as I was required to find my own projects and drive my own development. Required me to ask myself what I wanted out of the internship rather than mindlessly completing tasks. On the other hand, there was a lack of structure and some mandatory elements of expectations could have been communicated better as I was left to identify these elements myself.

Great company culture, friendly people and a priority on psychological safety which made it a great place to develop and grow my early career. Due to hybrid working the office atmosphere is sometimes great when people are in and sometimes I was the only one in the office.

Really enjoyed my internship - having connected with great people and having been given the opportunity to work on some challenging and interesting internal projects. While the lack of structure was initially challenging it fuelled significant personal and professional development which was very valuable.

Yes